Friday, 1 August 2014

CWA Dagger in the Library and Dead Good News!

Readers to decide the Dead Good and CWA 2014 Dagger
in the Library Award longlist for the first time

Nominations open Friday 1st
August

For
the first time ever readers will decide the longlist for the CWA Dagger in the
Library Award as its sponsor Dead Good and the CWA relaunch the Award for 2014.

From Friday 1st
August crime fans everywhere can
nominate their favourite authors online (www.deadgoodbooks.co.uk/dagger) and the ten
authors with the most votes will make up the long list. For the first time the vote will be digital
only, making the CWA Dagger in the Library Award the only crime award to have
an online reader nomination process.

Lynsey
Dalladay, Community Manager for Dead Good, said: “We’re thrilled to be sponsoring this important award and giving it the
attention it deserves. By asking the public to nominate their favourite talent,
we’re putting power back into the hands of readers and allowing them to recognise
and celebrate authors that consistently deliver top class crime fiction. Ours
is the first crime award to do this, so we’re incredibly excited to see what
crime readers choose.”

Director of the CWA, Lucy Santos said: “The CWA
is delighted to be working with Dead Good and to relaunch the 2014 Dagger in
the Library. Not only is at an opportunity to celebrate the best in crime
writing but it is unique amongst our Daggers in that the public choose who
makes it onto the longlist. What better excuse to find a quiet spot, grab your
favourite tipple and investigate all the great crime fiction out there.”

Unlike most other literary prizes, the Dagger in the Library is awarded
not for an individual book but for an author’s body of work.One of six highly
prized CWA Dagger Awards, which have been awarded to crime writers since 1955, judges
that will decide this year’s shortlist and winner include author Steve Mosby,
Lucy Santos and a panel of UK librarians.

Nominations close on September 1st 2014 and 2014 winner will be
announced in November.